A Wet Sock Puppet in Human Form

In principle, the President of the United States is the president of the United States. He is the leader who joins together the disparate factions that form the nation. He should represent America, not just one part of America.

Of course, Joe Biden has missed the point. He has held meetings with American car manufacturers to tout the advent of electric vehicles. And yet, somehow, the Biden administration did not invite the nation’s leading producer of electric vehicles. 

The Daily Mail has the story:

Tesla produced nearly 1million electric vehicles this year and made $17billion in sales in its fourth quarter.  

The Biden administration had shut Tesla out of a meeting in August and again shut them out of a meeting last Wednesday.

When CNBC reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin asked Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg why this had happened, the hapless secretary ignored the question and recited some talking points.

Tesla’s sin, of course, was that its workforce had not been unionized. The Biden administration supports unions and will punish anyone who does not unionize. Biden is president of the unions, by the unions, for the unions. We saw what happened when Biden and other Democratic politicians sided with the teachers’ unions and shut down public education. 

As it happens, for the record, a mere 6% of the private sector workforce is unionized. The strength and influence of unions lies in the public, not the private sector. So, Biden has been alienating American workers. playing to his base and stiffing American industry.

Anyway, Elon Musk was not taking the insult lying down.

The billionaire Tesla CEO, 50, called President Joe Biden, 79, a 'damp sock puppet' after he wasn't invited to president's Build Back Better meeting that focused on producing electric vehicles in the US on Wednesday. 

Biden praised General Motors and Ford in a tweet on Wednesday for 'building more electric vehicles here at home than ever before.' 

'I meant it when I said the future was going to be made right here in America,' Biden wrote on Twitter. 'Companies like GM and Ford are building more electric vehicles here at home than ever before.'  

Musk, whose billion-dollar company makes its vehicles in California and is now headquartered in Austin, Texas, didn't take the snub lightly, replying to the tweet: 'Starts with a T, Ends with an A, ESL in the middle.' 

He later replied again: 'Biden is a wet [sock] puppet in human form.'  

It was not the first time.

Musk was also snubbed in August when he was omitted as an attendee to the electric vehicle summit. 

At that summit, Biden stood by the CEOs of Ford, GM and Stellantis when he announced his executive order that half the US cars sales will be zero emissions by 2030. 

The moral of the story is that the Biden administration does not see itself leading the United States of America. It plays to its supporters and has no problem dividing the nation against itself.